Daisy Kenyon

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Daisy Kenyon

Released Nov 27, 1947

1h 39m

Romance

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Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford) is an artist living in Manhattan. She is in love with Dan (Dana Andrews), a busy lawyer who is unhappily married to the volatile Lucille (Ruth Warrick). While Daisy waits for Dan to get a divorce, she begins seeing Peter (Henry Fonda), a veteran recently returned from World War II. After Dan leaves town for a few weeks to defend a dispossessed Japanese-American, Daisy impetuously marries Peter. When Dan returns, the complicated affairs become even more tangled.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Rarely have love and madness seemed so fruitfully allied.

Jun 20, 2016

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Dan Callahan

Slant Magazine

Fairly recently, Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon has been starting to get some of the acclaim and attention it deserves.

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 11, 2008

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Its melodrama has tiny moments that are illuminated by the presence of Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda, but I'm afraid there is nothing moving in the dilemmas of their love triangle. Full review in Spanish

Rated: 6/10

Feb 10, 2022

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

At the beginning of Daisy Kenyon, Joan Crawford is the sane one.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jun 26, 2021

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

A scrupulously cooled romance and a portrait of a postwar nation, but first and foremost a fluid chart of thorny personal spaces brushing against each other

Sep 2, 2014

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Though one of Preminger's weaker films, it's still interesting to watch as a sampler of the woman's picture and star vehicle for Joan Crwaford.

Rated: C+

Mar 8, 2008

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Steve D

The cast is better than the material.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/19/24

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William R. P

Martha Stewart? That Martha Stewart?Martha Stewart, Actress in ‘Daisy Kenyon' and ‘In a Lonely Place,' Dies at 98 She also sang with big bands and starred on stage as Miss Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.' guess not

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/04/23

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Matthew R

The most interesting of Crawford's, 40s Warner Bros. melodramas.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/11/23

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Audience Member

I don't like the story, but the performance is good.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

Decent,but emotionally selective , it was the times.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

'Daisy Kenyon' was certainly no 'Mildred Pierce' , nor even a 'Harriet Craig'. The slick production values , great direction and three gorgeous stars at the height of their powers cannot compensate for a plot that no editing could have sense of , and the fact that Joan was just too old for this bachelor girl part.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Synopsis

Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford) is an artist living in Manhattan. She is in love with Dan (Dana Andrews), a busy lawyer who is unhappily married to the volatile Lucille (Ruth Warrick). While Daisy waits for Dan to get a divorce, she begins seeing Peter (Henry Fonda), a veteran recently returned from World War II. After Dan leaves town for a few weeks to defend a dispossessed Japanese-American, Daisy impetuously marries Peter. When Dan returns, the complicated affairs become even more tangled.

Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Screenwriter: David Hertz
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 27, 1947, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 11, 2010
Runtime: 1h 39m

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